A chef was today jailed for life for the murder of a 21-year-old plumber in a pub car park.

Leroy McKenzie Griffith, of Ridley's Fold, Addingham, was found guilty at Leeds Crown Court of the murder of Mark Webster, but found not guilty of the assault on Paul Shaw and Adam Renton.

The court had heard how Griffith stabbed Mr Webster in the chest as the plumber tried to calm Griffith down during a row at the Fleece Inn, Addingham.

Judge Peter Charlesworth told 37-year-old Griffith: "You have been convicted on overwhelming evidence.

"It was a deliberate and intentional stabbing on a perfectly decent and fine young man.

"You used a knife you had taken out with you, brought out of your car and you used it in a most dreadful way. Mark Webster had done nothing to you. You have shown no response nor shown any remorse."

A packed public gallery cheered as the verdict was delivered.

The judge paid tribute to Mr Webster and expressed sympathy to his family saying they had been "cruelly deprived of a fine young life" and said he had sympathy for the whole community of Addingham.

Graham Hyland, QC, claimed in mitigation, that Griffith, "a man of good character", had been subjected to "a degree of provocation".